Brown Economic Consulting Inc.

Voted Canada’s Top Economic Witness Firm

We Quantify
Economic Damages

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Are You Looking for an Expert or a Calculator?

Why Choose Brown Economic Consulting?

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Reports

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Ms. Brown’s Years of Experience

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Working With Brown Economic Consulting

Experts in the Field

Brown Economic is one of the few forensic economic firms in Canada that has a balance between plaintiff and defense work, even though we accept assignments on a “first-come, first-serve” basis. We have also been hired as a 3rd-party expert to review plaintiff and defense reports (in the same case) and have been asked to completely recreate reports prepared by other economic firms – but with the correct methodologies. An example of this occurred in Kitching v. Devlin (2016), when Brown Economic recalculated the plaintiff’s prospective income losses for the court following previous expert reports.

Meet the Team

Free Resources Available

Our firm offers numerous free resources for all lawyers and insurers. These include our online calculators (non-pecuniary damages, working life/life expectancy, and present value damages), which do not even require a user ID or password. Ms. Brown authors and disseminates Brown’s Economic Damages Newsletter, which has been available since 1995 and has a large database of more than 270 editions, spread amongst numerous forensic economic topics. On this site, we offer forms that can be used in injury and wrongful death cases: an injury checklist, a fatality checklist, the Family Profile Form™, Employment & Education Diary, and the Diary of Household Activities.™

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Exceptional Customer Services

Brown Economic excels in customer service. A consultant is always available at our Calgary office so can be reached via toll-free number or email immediately. Zoom and MS-Teams calls are routinely fulfilled for new assignments, and new inquiries are responded to within 1-2 days. All this pales in comparison to our promise to clients to never miss a deadline – even when responses are required within a matter of days or weeks to use at mediation.

Certified Across Canada

Brown Economic has been hired by counsel in British Columbia, Yukon territory, Alberta, NWT, Nunavut, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and PEI. Ms. Brown has also testified in all these regions. Ms. Brown has published an article in the Journal of Forensic Economics describing methodologies in each province and territory across Canada entitled “Assessing Economic Loss Damages in Canada” along with expectations for experts from Canadian courts.

Meet Cara Brown

Cara Brown began her career in forensic economics in 1988. Ms. Brown established her own consulting firm in 1995. Since then, Ms. Brown has been responsible for creating and structuring court-ready assessments in civil litigation arising from all manner of interruptions (motor vehicle accident, medical malpractice, slip & fall, aviation accidents, sexual assault, wrongful confinement, wrongful imprisonment, and oppression actions). Ms. Brown has also testified several times in estate dispute cases. In addition to producing reports and testifying on their behalf, Ms. Brown has undertaken a great deal of research, advancing the field of forensic economics in Canada by publishing Damages: Estimating Pecuniary Loss by Thomson Reuters (currently in its 34+ edition) and contributing peer-reviewed articles to numerous journals, such as the Journal of Forensic Economics, Journal of Legal Economics, Alberta Law Review, UBC Law Review, and The Advocates’ Quarterly.

Ms. Brown is the sole author of all critiques of other expert work and is routinely asked to compose sample questions for direct evidence and cross-examination of economic evidence. Brown Economic’s specialty is the melding of Canadian case law with forensic economic principles, which ensures that all reports that are prepared will be helpful to the court and contain the court-endorsed methodologies for quantifying economic loss damages.

Our Economic Consulting Expertise

Forensic
Economics

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Written
Assessments

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Wage Deficit
Approach (WDA)

In cases where the true impact of the injury is obscured by economic or other factors or will emerge over time, Statistics Canada’s disability surveys can be used to apply a wage deficit percentage based on the plaintiff’s severity or type of disability to derive a potential income loss.

Expertise in
Fatality Cases

Brown Economic has been hired in landmark wrongful death cases since the early 1990s: Duncan v. Baddeley (1999); Millott v. Reinhard (2001 & 2002); Fullowka et al v. Royal Oak Ventures et al (2004 – the Giant Mine cases); Palmquist v. Ziegler (2010); and Baker v. Poucette (2016 & 2017). Ms. Brown is the only forensic economist in Canada to have published two articles in the Journal of Forensic Economics (2004 & 2012) using Statistics Canada’s Surveys of Household Spending (SHS), which publish PCRs by family size and family income level.

Court
Testimony

All written documents contain the promise of corroboration through testimony given under oath. Ms. Brown has testified in almost all regions in Canada, including the 3 northern territories, as well as in Texas and North Dakota. Ms. Brown has also given evidence in more than a dozen jury trials, such as the Saskatchewan case of Biletski v. University of Regina (2017, 2019) where the court of appeal affirmed the jury’s award of more than $12 million to the plaintiff.

Assistance to
Counsel

Ms. Brown has testified across Canada on more than 150 occasions since 1989. In the past 25 years, this has included composing sample questions for direct evidence and sample cross-examination questions for economic, accounting, actuarial, and cost of care experts. Ms. Brown has also been invited by counsel to assist in evaluating testimony given by opposing experts.